[Vwdiesel] Film at Eleven

[Sandy Cameron]

At 09:18 PM 7/20/05 -0700, you wrote:
>Rob, you have unwittingly caused me to solve a great
>mystery of my life!


Having been employed in TV broadcasting all my life (since 1957), I remember
the early TV news bulletins that promised "Film at eleven" as reporters got
their 16 mm  silent B&W  footage of events with their B&H 200's, and then
rushed it to the processing labs for developing to make the eleven oclock news
.
Early labs were often independant, entreprenurial basement operations, where
the stock (not negative) was developed by a "reversal" process which allowed
the use of the actual taking stock, for later positive projection on
telecine camera chains, eliminating the usual negative / print method used
by hollywood .

Early telecine's sometimes used negative stock, and reversed the polarity
electronically, but news editors didn't like working with negative.

All this disappeared in the '70's with the arrival of smaller electronic
news cameras and video tape.

Val will know all about this, a  supplier to the industry.

[Obligatory Diesel content]

I liked the big diesel gensets we had for power outages, and was often
responsible for ensuring they would start when needed.

Next time I will tell a story about dragging a big diesel starting battery
by hand, up a mountain to a transmitter site in a roaring blizzard, to start
the gm 6-71 and get the tv transmitter back on the air.

Sandy